bill: he concludes many things including the investigation was largely based on faulty evidence linked to the clinton campaign and he says the f.b.i. was seemingly eager to go after trump while staying overly cautious on hillary clinton. confirming what republicans say they knew all along and they want justice. three years, all we ever heard about was russia and mueller and this investigation and collusion and coordination. none of it was true. all based on a lie. most importantly the f.b.i. knew it was a lie. there needs to be prosecutions and accountability and the f.b.i. has got to be overhauled now top to bottom. they had contrary evidence that shows that there was no purpose to open this investigation and not a single high ranking official stepped in to stop this political witch hunt. what it means, this is the weaponization of the federal government at the highest levels. dana: david spunt has more from the justice department this morning. good morning. so
legally questionable plan. dana: mark meredith, keep us posted. bill: back to john durham special counsel releasing the blistering report on the origins of the trump/russia investigation. one of his biggest takeaways the f.b.i. probe was seriously flawed, had no basis to conduct it. here it is. an objective and honest assessment of these strands of information should have caused the f.b.i. to question not only the predication for crossfire hurricane but reflect whether or not the f.b.i. was being manipulated for political and other purposes. unfortunately it did not. lindsey graham, top republican is with me now. nice to see you. good morning to you. i will give you a moment here. i will read what dick durbin said. senate majority whip, democrat. donald trump predicted that special counsel durham would uncover the crime of the century. instead we were given a report that caused taxpayers more than 6 1/2 million to reit late the
russia investigation five years ago. buzz feed broke the dossier story. they re out of business. cnn followed hours after word. last friday night they had 300,000 viewers in prime time. the point is they were working together on this, if you read this report carefully. they spied on americans. they spied on americans and had no reason to do it and they got away with it. and we have to hold people accountable. biden needs to answer for this. democrat leadership needs to answer for this. republicans and democrats need to come together and say what will you do to make sure this doesn t happen again. heads need to roll for this. dana: crime extras why are the reporters angry saying something out loud about the people in the f.b.i. who lied to them and misled them. that s the sort of thing
continues. dana: this may not come as a surprise. some in the media giving the dauer home report the back of its hand. it is trying to say there is a there there when there isn t. what you have with john durham, a big fat nothing. four years of nothing. and now we have durham publishing another nothing. nothing new here but at least durham will stop wasting taxpayer s money. bill: another dud is what she said. nikki haley former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and republican presidential candidate. weigh in. it s a top law enforcement agency that didn t follow the laws. we now see it was politically motivated. that is something that happens in a third world country. that doesn t happen in america. i fought those things at the united nations. to see what happened is unthinkable. heads need to roll over this. anybody that touched it or had a
prevented. merrick garland released it to the public yesterday. didn t add or take away any words and john durham agreed with the f.b.i. that the corrective actions will keep history from repeating itself. dana and bill. dana: thank you for that update. bill: legal experts reacting on this report praising it for its thoroughness and calling out the f.b.i. it is everything the russia investigation was not. methodical, he just goes through the facts and shows how false accounts were created, often in coordination with the clinton campaign. the world s greatest law enforcement agency, didn t meet anybody s reasonable expectation. the bureau needs real reform and it hasn t happened yet. bill: the f.b.i. says it has carried out several reports since the report back in 2019. that effort apparently